well now it’s my last comment! There is my final regular expression.

No postal code includes the letters D, F, I, O, Q, or U, as the OCR equipment used in automated sorting could easily confuse them with other letters and digits[citation needed], especially when they are rendered as cursive handwriting. The letters W and Z are used, but are not currently used as the first letter.

preg_match(‘/^[^dfioquwz][0-9][^dfioqu][0-9][^dfioqu][0-9]$/i’, $zipCode)

for example:

A0A 3W0 is a valid postal code.
A0A 3W0 | SOUTH RIVER | NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR | NL | 709 | Y | 47.535964 | -53.209132
A0A 1Z0 is a valid postal code.
A0A 1Z0 | CONCEPTION HARBOUR | NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR | NL | 709 | Y | 47.427521 | -53.225612

As my postal code was not considered to be a valid one, i reviewed your regex and the canada post website and found that only the first char has to represent one of the 18 regions.

I also optimized it to proceed faster.

preg_match(‘/^[abceghjklmnprstvxy][0-9][a-z][0-9][a-z][0-9]$/i’, $zip);

@pixelxdesign : there is no need to use strtoupper as the modifier i(caseless) is in the regular expression. And in this case this modifier is fater than the strto(upper|lower) function.

thanks

can you post a modified function to allow for above?

i am using php and mysql i want to send bulk but server not support ..my server guy told send bulk mail using your localhost can.. any one help me how can i send bulk mail..?????

You can just add str_replace in the function…

<?

/**
* validateCanadaZip()
*
* function to validate postal code of canada
* @source http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/03/canda-postal-code-validation-php.html
* {@modified by} Fred-Eric Lafaille, http://www.pixelxdesign.com/
*
*
*
* @param mixed $zip_code
* @return array ()
*/
function validateCanadaZip($zip_code)
{
$zip_code = strtoupper($zip_code);
$zip_code = str_replace(” “, “”, $zip_code);
$zip_code = str_replace(“-”, “”, $zip_code);

$count = count( $zip_code);

if(strlen($zip_code) 6) {
return array(false, $zip_code. ” 0×0001″);
}

//function by Roshan Bhattara(http://roshanbh.com.np)
if(preg_match(“/^([a-ceghj-npr-tv-z]){1}[0-9]{1}[a-ceghj-npr-tv-z]{1}[0-9]{1}[a-ceghj-npr-tv-z]{1}[0-9]{1}$/i”,$zip_code))
return array(true, $zip_code);
else
return array(false, $zip_code);
}

$zipcode = “h7w 5c6″;
$result = validateCanadaZip($zipcode);
if ($result['0']) {
print $result['1'] .” est valide”;
} else {
print $result['1'] .” est non-valide”;
}

?>

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